Renowned poet Kedarnath Singh to the enchanting poetry of Dr. Sagar

“A young poet from among the students joined us on the platform of that cutting-edge university and delivered a Bhojpuri poem with tremendous ease and simplicity. For the poets on stage and the majority of the audience, it was a singular experience to have the whole community—which included speakers of languages besides Hindi and Bhojpuri—listen to him intently.

‘It was the freshness and the underlying vigor of Bhojpuri, a ‘dialect’ which is not considered a language,’ explains Kedarnath Singh while describing how such a marvelous response to Dr. Sagar’s poetry came about during the seminar.

Dr. Sagar’s words still have the same freshness and vigor when he writes raps in Bhojpuri like “Bambai Mein Ka Ba” or when he pens, for instance, the soulful Bhojpuri songs of Sony Liv’s top-rated series ‘Maharani 2’. He remains the favorite of audiences across the country, be they from Bhojpuri or non-Bhojpuri linguistic backgrounds, from North India, South India, or Northeast India. The magic of Dr. Sagar’s words captivates everyone’s mind and heart.

Dr. Sagar’s constant endeavors to make Bhojpuri a part of the mainstream of Bollywood are now coming to fruition. Bringing Bhojpuri to the mainstream of Bollywood has been a dream of his since he was a sixth-grade student. His hard work towards fulfilling this dream has been praised not only by veteran poets like Jnanpith Awardee Kedarnath Singh, but also by decorated cinema figures like Anubhav Sinha, Manoj Bajpayee, Anurag Kashyap, and Shatrughan Sinha.